Only one thing could stop Judgement Day, and it certainly wasn’t a metric ton of Austrian bodybuilder flesh layered on top of an almost indestructible titanium exoskeleton and a Windows ME operating system. The rise of the robots has been stopped dead in its metallic tracks by an even bigger threat: Box office failure to launch a new franchise.
Whether you like Terminator: Genisys or not – I fell somewhere in the middle – there’s no denying that the movie’s $440 million global box office take is nothing to sneeze at. With a newly tinkered with timeline resetting events, Genisys was supposed to kick start a whole new trilogy of movies. The ending of the film even had Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular old T-800 …
Right now, Hollywood has a massive problem when it comes to movie posters. A problem, that consists of the majority of these posters being either over-flooded with names or generic poses with a blue and teal background. Fortunately, Terminator: Genisys only suffers from one of these problems, while at the same time confirming characters in the flick. For instance, Arnie is still …
I’m cautiously optimistic for Terminator: Genisys. It may have a stupid title and Jai Courtney in a lead role, but dammit if I can’t help but smile every time I hear Arnie say “I’HLL BE BACH”. That film arrives later this year, and unless you’re willing to get naked and time travel forward in time by a few months, you’re …
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For three decades, the biggest robot at the box office has been an Austrian with an amusing accent and deadly one-liners. Terminator has been around for longer than most of us have been alive, and it may indeed be time for a change. Sort of. Or at least a film that doesn’t piss on Terminator 2: Judgement Day’s ending. Terminator …
I’ll be honest here and admit that it’s not the return of Arnie or the fact that the Terminator franchise is getting a fourth chance that draws me to the upcoming Terminator: Genisys. It’s that the film has plenty of great actors in it, including the criminally underrated JK Simmons. That’s an actor who makes any role worth watching on …
It would be naive to say climate change is not real — or that …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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